Encore Question of March 13, 1999.
Played at The Frog & Firkin in North York.

Answers:

Can We Still Be Friends

Hello It's Me

We Gotta Get You A Woman

I Saw The Light

Bang The Drum All Day

I'm in 5th tonight after a good start behind the two regulars who are controlling four boards to get a good bar score. I'm playing with Jeff LEAFAN as friends Bill MADDOG and TREV had already gone home. There wasn't a huge turnout tonight. My mind wasn't into playing as I had failed a driving test the day before and now risk losing the license I've had for four years. My mind was wandering all night worrying.

I put the maximum 50% on the line although I only recognize 'Hello It's Me' as a Todd Rundgren song. The Players Plus standard tonight was only 11000.

Question:...Which Todd Rundgren tune did Robert Palmer cover on his "Secrets" album?

I don't know this one. So they're all Todd Rundgren tunes? What would Robert Palmer sing? Jeff says it's '1' but when I say I'm going to pick '3' he asks if I know for sure. Does he know for sure? Well we're out of time. I'm staying with this like the U2 Encore a few weeks ago. The two songs I think I'd have known if Robert Palmer sang were '2' and '5' as 'Bang...' was being used as a television commercial jingle a year or so ago. '3' would be a good image for Palmer's 'dancing girls' video period. [Oops...A few years too soon].

Correct Answer:...1. Can We Still Be Friends

[That song is in my music book. Both artists had a singles hit with it].

I'm wrong and crash to 8th place. Only one person was right but some players were conservative for this question. The winner is LEAFAN who risk 50% and was right and zoomed from 10th to 1st. I finish 6419th in North America and the bar is 1203rd. I earn only 1500+ Players Plus points. I had been trying to convince Jeff to risk only 10% to at least finish over 11000 right or wrong. It was me who should have listened to him for this question! Jeff had to sit through the hockey game with Montreal and the Leaf tieing goal being disallowed for a tough loss to take and had even walked away from this game for a few questions but what a comeback! MOLSON came over to congratulate Jeff. That question/answer would have been impossible to write down in time so I'm glad I have this micro recorder.

Other games:
7:30pm...Countdown...2034/15000...8th/8...I'm 8176 in North America...the bar is 598th in NA...I earn 500+ points...WINO wins...(getting here before the 11th question would have helped).
8:00pm...Countdown...9352/15000...4th/8...I missed my placing and bar standings...1000+ points...MARIE wins.
8:30pm...Countdown...10446/15000...5th/13...I'm 2051 in NA...the bar is 346th...2000+ points...TREV wins.
9:00pm...Wipeout...12475/15000...1st/11...I'm 171st in NA...the bar is 436th...1000+ points.
9:30pm...SunSportsCountdown...10724/15000...4th/9...I'm 65th of 729 players in S.Ont...bar is 5th in Southern Ontario with an 11288 average....JONC wins. (JONC was listening in on my answers so I switched places to get less smoke in my face and we saw how he did in the music game!). I knew the answer to nickname Arsenal 'Gunners' for the max 1000 in the manditory soccer question.
10:00pm...Playback (see above).

Last week's Encore question was something like "Where was rapper Heavy D born?" answer Jamaica. That would have been a tough one. MOLSON had the bar ready for a Top 20 Network finish until that question.